Ireland FM: 'The world is a crazy, tragic place'

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(15 Dec 2022) FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4411112 RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS New York - 14 December 2022 1. Wide, interview HEADLINE Ireland FM: 'The world is a crazy, tragic place' 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Simon Coveney, Irish Foreign Minister: "It was a lot busier than we could have expected for very tragic reasons, from a human perspective. We were expecting, of course, this that things would happen while we were on the Security Council that we would have to respond to. But we could really never have dreamt the scale of of conflict that the Security Council would attempt to try and deal with, whether that was in Ethiopia, where hundreds of thousands of people have been killed. It's hardly even been on the news in most parts of the world. And Ireland was determined to raise the the human suffering that was happening in what effectively was a civil war in Ethiopia and, of course, Afghanistan and the the exit from Kabul, which unfortunately has created huge suffering and and vulnerability for the female population." ++WHITE FRAMES ++ 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Simon Coveney, Irish Foreign Minister: "I never thought that as a foreign minister and as a defense minister for Ireland, that I'd be witnessing a war on this scale on the continent of Europe again. I mean, this is brutality and aggression, the level of which we haven't seen since the Second World War, where a military superpower, Russia, has decided to try and change international borders by force, by not only targeting Ukraine in terms of their military, but now unapologetically and blatantly targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure as well to try and make life impossible for and in Ukraine. And so far, that's seen almost 8 million Ukrainians flee into the EU. 65,000 of them have come to Ireland and are living in our homes in Ireland and will continue to be welcome, welcome in my country." ++WHITE FRAMES ++. 4. SOUNDBITE (English) Simon Coveney, Irish Foreign Minister: "History will be a very harsh judge of of lots of countries in terms of what has been allowed to happen in Syria and the human suffering that has flown from that. And let's hope that we find a way of bringing the madness of war in Ukraine to an end in a much, much shorter time frame that has happened in Syria or in Yemen, for that matter." STORYLINE: Ireland's foreign minister says "the world is a crazy and tragic place at the moment," pointing to the war in Ukraine and other conflicts, looming famine in the Horn of Africa, Iran's expanding nuclear program, global impacts of climate change and a polarized U.N. Security Council as some of the major challenges. In a wide-ranging interview Wednesday with The Associated Press, Simon Coveney also addressed problems closer to home, saying he hopes that quiet ongoing negotiations between Britain, Ireland and the European Commission can resolve difficult Brexit issues by April 10 next year, the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement which largely ended three decades of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland in which more than 3,000 people died. Coveney, who came to New York as Ireland is nearing the end of its two-year term on the Security Council, called his country's experience on the U.N.'s most powerful body "one of frustration at times," saying there are examples of the council achieving "good things, but unfortunately, there are many more examples where the Security Council has failed." AP Video shot by Ted Shaffrey =========================================================== Clients are reminded: Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/d1d6dc1e9d7f4fd2abbbc0edfca9ed10

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